Back to the Garden
Author: King, Laurie R.
ISBN: 9780593496589
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 04 Jul 2023
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences-in this gripping new story from the i>New York Times/i> bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series/b>BR>BR>b>A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences-in this gripping standalone novel from the i>New York Times/i> bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series./b>br>br>b>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- i>PopSugar/i>/b>br>br>A magnificent house, vast formal gardens, a golden family that shaped California, and a colorful past filled with now-famous artists- the Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden.br>br>And now, just as the Estate is preparing to move into a new future, restoration work on some of its art digs up a grim relic of the home's past- a human skull, hidden away for decades.br>br>Inspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, the Estate's young heir, Rob Gardener, turned his palatial home into a counterculture commune of peace, love, and equality. But that was also a time when serial killers preyed on innocents-monsters like The Highwayman, whose case has just surged back into the public eye.br>br>Could the skull belong to one of his victims?br>br>To Raquel-a woman who knows all about colorful pasts-the bones clearly seem linked to The Highwayman. But as she dives into the Estate's archives to look for signs of his presence, what she unearths begins to take on a dark reality all of its own.br>br>Everything she finds keeps bringing her back to Rob Gardener himself. While he might be a gray-haired recluse now, back then he was a troubled young Vietnam vet whose girlfriend vanished after a midsummer festival at the Estate.br>br>Buta lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate that summer when the commune mysteriously fell apart- a young woman, her child, and Rob's brother, Fort.br>br>The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case-before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes.
ISBN: 9780593496589
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 04 Jul 2023
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
b>A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences-in this gripping new story from the i>New York Times/i> bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series/b>BR>BR>b>A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences-in this gripping standalone novel from the i>New York Times/i> bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series./b>br>br>b>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- i>PopSugar/i>/b>br>br>A magnificent house, vast formal gardens, a golden family that shaped California, and a colorful past filled with now-famous artists- the Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden.br>br>And now, just as the Estate is preparing to move into a new future, restoration work on some of its art digs up a grim relic of the home's past- a human skull, hidden away for decades.br>br>Inspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, the Estate's young heir, Rob Gardener, turned his palatial home into a counterculture commune of peace, love, and equality. But that was also a time when serial killers preyed on innocents-monsters like The Highwayman, whose case has just surged back into the public eye.br>br>Could the skull belong to one of his victims?br>br>To Raquel-a woman who knows all about colorful pasts-the bones clearly seem linked to The Highwayman. But as she dives into the Estate's archives to look for signs of his presence, what she unearths begins to take on a dark reality all of its own.br>br>Everything she finds keeps bringing her back to Rob Gardener himself. While he might be a gray-haired recluse now, back then he was a troubled young Vietnam vet whose girlfriend vanished after a midsummer festival at the Estate.br>br>Buta lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate that summer when the commune mysteriously fell apart- a young woman, her child, and Rob's brother, Fort.br>br>The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case-before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes.
